Explore 24 documented cases from Norway. Each file separates established findings from allegations and unresolved questions, with a focus on investigation rather than graphic detail.
Anja Weløy Aarseth, 21, was killed while out for a run in Ålesund in 2013. Steven Dan Danielsen confessed, was convicted of rape and murder, and received 21 years of preventive detention; his sentence appeal was rejected.
Open case file →Agnes Elisabeth Müller was reported missing in Rogaland in 2014. Her husband Thomas Müller was convicted of rape and premeditated murder and received a final 21-year prison sentence.
Open case file →Janne Jemtland disappeared near Brumunddal in December 2017 and was later recovered from the Glomma River. Her husband Svein Jemtland was convicted of murder and received a 17-year sentence on appeal; later proceedings concerned sentence credit, not guilt.
Open case file →Trude Espås disappeared in Geiranger in August 1996 and was found murdered 11 days later. Thousands of people were checked across dozens of countries, but no one has been charged.
Open case file →Ahmed Bouchikhi was killed in Lillehammer in 1973 after an Israeli intelligence team mistook him for Ali Hassan Salameh. Six participants were arrested; five were convicted, while suspected shooters escaped.
Open case file →Tina Jørgensen disappeared in Stavanger in September 2000 and was found murdered near Bore church a month later. The case remains unsolved; police were still assessing new information and interviewing witnesses in 2025.
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Faiza Ashraf was abducted in Bærum in 2010 and managed to call police from the trunk of the car. After appeals, two men were finally convicted of premeditated murder.
Open case file →John Olav Larsen and Håkon Edvard Johansen were found murdered in Fredrikstad in 1969. Per Kristian Liland was wrongly convicted in 1970 and acquitted in 1994 after the case was reopened; the double murder itself remained unresolved.
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Two people were killed in the 2022 attack targeting Oslo's LGBTQ+ community; the gunman and a later-convicted orchestrator each received 30-year sentences.
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Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen was murdered before an attempted attack on the Al-Noor mosque; reopened proceedings ended with a new 21-year sentence in 2025.
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Fifteen-year-old Benjamin Hermansen was murdered in Holmlia in 2001 in a racially motivated attack; two neo-Nazi men were convicted.
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Five people were killed in Kongsberg in 2021; the court established the acts but ordered compulsory psychiatric care after finding the perpetrator not criminally responsible.
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Eight-year-old Monika's death was wrongly closed as suicide before a reopened investigation, DNA evidence and court proceedings established murder.
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Anne-Elisabeth Hagen vanished from her Lørenskog home in 2018; police confirmed in August 2026 that the investigation remains active.
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Two young girls were murdered in the Baneheia recreation area in Kristiansand in 2000, producing one of Norway’s most consequential criminal cases.
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Seventeen-year-old Birgitte Tengs was found murdered on Karmøy in 1995.
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Nine-year-old Therese Johannessen disappeared from the Fjell area of Drammen in 1988.
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Twelve-year-old Kristin Juel Johannessen was killed near Larvik in 1999 while riding her bicycle.
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Sixteen-year-old Sigrid Schjetne disappeared while walking home in Oslo in 2012, prompting a large volunteer and police search.
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On 22 July 2011, a bomb attack in Oslo was followed by a mass shooting at a youth camp on Utøya, killing 77 people in total.
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A heavily armed group attacked the NOKAS cash depot in Stavanger in 2004 in what became Norway’s most famous modern robbery.
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Fritz Moen, a deaf man with significant communication disabilities, was convicted of two separate murders of young women in Trondheim.
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